Xref Reviews

3.4

61% would recommend to a friend

(43 total reviews)

Lee-Martin Seymour

58% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Xref has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 43 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Xref employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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43 reviews
1.0
6 Sept 2020

There are better workplaces - trust me!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people seem nice. Lovely offices.

Cons

- There is a messy structure. - For a small business, management are disconnected from the day-to-day working of the business hence unaware of the underlying mess. - It was made clear to me the CEO changes priorities very quickly. It's difficult to harness your job fully & effectively. - Management need to do more training on respecting their people. - Moving goal posts instills an element of unease and instability. - It's a typical cut throat sales environment. More so given it's a small business. - They promote themselves to be bigger than what they actually are with a majority of the company located in Sydney. In reality they're quite small with family members working within key areas of the business.

1.0
17 May 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Beautiful views - Great talent acquisition - Monthly company lunch - Good people working there - Coworkers willing to help and guide new hires - Always paid on time - Friday drinks

Cons

- Most of the 5 star ratings are fake or staged. Xref deserves a 3/5. - While location is beautiful, it's not great if you're commuting, add 20 minutes to your usual city commute. - Poor work-life balance, they'll say that you have certain flexibility but in reality they'll judge you and imply that you should leave late, or take work home. - Experts at crushing motivations. If you join the company with expectations of developing your ideas and dreams, they'll soon be crushed by upper and mid management. You'll realise that decisions are taken on a whim with very little planning. Your expertise will simply not be considered but you'll be held accountable if something that concerns your position goes wrong. - Priorities change depending on CEO's mood (which is very volatile). - Disguising the truth is something CEO and the rest of C- levels are very good at. One day they'll tell employees that the company is successful and that numbers are up, while the next day they will lay off half of a team and don't tell anyone. - Upper management considers employees as lower class citizens that don't deserve their trust and therefore they feel like they need to micromanage.

1.0
10 Aug 2020

Avoid this company

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- I've met some of the most talented developers in this company - Improvements and ideas tech-wise usually get applied quickly and with considerably less friction/red-tape - Free lunch every month - Friday drinks - Office location is gorgeous - There's a BBQ and table tennis

Cons

There are a lot but the worst are: - Distrust of management to employees very evident. Hard to take work from homes. Your time-in and time-out matters to management immensely in a very weird way. Sometimes more so than your actual output. - You will have to deal with a CEO who will ban work from homes when there's a storm and streets are flooded, and who will then later post a video of him frolicking his luxury SUV (he's driving) in the flood to the company group chat at a time when the government is going hard on phone users while driving. Also, his mood changes and tantrums are almost toddler-like and acts as if all his ideas are superior, shutting out everyone on advices and reviews only to end up with underwhelming results. - They actually went on in and posted fake good reviews here hence giving me motivation to put in some truths to balance it out. That should tell you a lot about the culture and character of management.

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